The “Tiny Dark Closet” Phase of Writing a Novel
Help I’m stuck — no, actually, please DON’T help
5 min readSep 5, 2020
I’m stuck in my current novel.
It was all going so well, for quite a while there. That is, after the first few months of the pandemic, which distracted me so badly I couldn’t do any creative work. That was hard, but eventually I stopped baking so many crumpets and lemon bars…